Brendan Fitzpatrick
16 October 2025
Episode

The Frame: October 16, 2025

This week on The Frame: Framingham education leaders analyze the latest set of the city’s MCAS scores, a spotlight on the District 8 City Council race, and local candidates who will be on the ballot this Election Day take part in a debate forum.

This week on The Frame: Framingham education leaders analyze the latest set of the city’s MCAS scores, a spotlight on the District 8 City Council race, and local candidates who will be on the ballot this Election Day take part in a debate forum.

All of that this week on The Frame: Framingham News in Focus.

Intro: 0:00

MCAS Scores : 0:06

District 8 City Council Election Preview: 2:22

Local Candidate Debate Forum/Election Registration Reminder: 3:22

One-Alarm House Fire Displaces Four: 5:06

Carol Getchell Trail Grant: 5:31

Upcoming Community Events: 5:58

Further articles

The Massachusetts legislature’s closeout supplemental budget includes provisions for these transfers ahead of the development of a new regional justice center for the MetroWest region.

Currently outside of Framingham State’s Danforth Art Museum are a set of bright pink chairs—they’re called the Conversation Chairs, and they’re meant to initiate dialogues between neighbors and to inspire participants to draw representations of what those talks featured.

Following a community meeting on Monday, leaders on the project noted the first phase of construction into Framingham should hopefully begin in 2029.